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(May 04, 2000)
All users of internet e-mail programs, including the MCPS FirstClass system, are advised that a computer virus named "I LOVE YOU" is especially destructive and damaging to computers, e-mail systems, f ...(more)
(May 03, 2000)
Eighty-seven percent of students who took Algebra 1 in middle school for the first semester this year passed the countywide exam, an important accomplishment since more than one-third of ninth grade s ...(more)
(April 28, 2000)
The first implementation of standardized grading scales for the countywide exam in Algebra 1 for high school students occurred this past January, and the results show that only 36 percent of the high ...(more)
Seven Montgomery County Public Schools students have won corporate-sponsored National Merit Scholarships financed by companies, foundations and other business organizations. The students are among 22 ...(more)
Throughout the school year, 16 students from 14 Montgomery County high schools have rushed from school to the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to don lab coats and pursue medical research. They ar ...(more)
(April 27, 2000)
Jackson Road Elementary School's project to help students better understand the content area of mathematics has been selected to receive a $10,000 Toyota TIME grant from Toyota Motor Sales, U.S.A., In ...(more)
(April 26, 2000)
The Board of Education met yesterday [Tuesday, April 25] and, among other items, endorsed the superintendent's decision to alter the penalty for student use or possession of cellular phones on school ...(more)
(April 19, 2000)
Northwest High School science resource teacher Kathy Bender and two of the students in her satellite imagery class will travel to Hawaii in May to help produce a series of live webcasts and to film fo ...(more)
(April 17, 2000)
Four high school seniors have been named semifinalists for the 2000 Presidential Scholars awards, one of the highest honors given to high school seniors in the United States.The students are among 550 ...(more)
(April 13, 2000)
An excellent article about the kindergarten initiative in MCPS, as well as other related national issues, can be found in the current edition of "Education Week." The article focuses on the successful ...(more)
Three Montgomery County Public Schools have been honored for outstanding community service programs in the first-ever Marriott Spirit to Serve Awards for Outstanding Schools.The awards were created by ...(more)
(April 12, 2000)
The Board of Education met yesterday [Tuesday, April 11] and, among other items, discussed the implications of the Eisenberg decision on the transfer policy and authorized a task force to study the fe ...(more)
(April 11, 2000)
Dozens of high school students in Montgomery County Public Schools (MCPS) will be able to conduct research in National Institutes of Health (NIH) laboratories, thanks to two grants from the Howard Hug ...(more)
(April 10, 2000)
John F. Kennedy High School will offer constitutional law instruction to students beginning next fall as the result of a new partnership with American University in Washington, D.C. American Universi ...(more)
(April 07, 2000)
Presented byPatricia B. O'Neill, President, Board of EducationApril 6, 2000The Board urges the Montgomery County Council to fully fund its FY 2001 Operating Budget Request. The Board of Education and ...(more)